He has thrice won the Indian National Film Award for best film scoring. His work integrated Tamil folk lyricism and introduced broader Western musical sensibilities into the South Indian musical mainstream. He almost monopolised Tamil and Telugu music until the early nineties. Much of his work was in the Tamil and Telugu languages. Ilaiyaraaja was a prominent composer of film music in South Indian cinema during the late 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s. He is based in Chennai, the fourth largest city in India and the centre of the Tamil film industry (colloquially known as Kollywood). He has composed over 4,000 songs and provided film scores for more than 800 Indian films in various languages in a career spanning more than 30 years. info) (Tamil: இளையராஜா, IPA: ) (Telugu :ఇళయరాజ)(born Jas Gnanadesikan) is an Indian music composer, singer, and lyricist.
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